Part VI Official Listing

F1Transfer of application for approval of a prospectus

87ETransfer by F2FCA of application for approval

(1)

The F3FCA may transfer an application for the approval of a prospectus or a supplementary prospectus to the competent authority of another EEA State (“the transferee authority”).

(2)

Before doing so, the F4FCA must obtain the agreement of the transferee authority F5and notify ESMA.

(3)

The F4FCA must inform the applicant of the transfer within 3 working days beginning with the first working day after the date of the transfer.

(4)

On making a transfer under subsection (1), the F4FCA ceases to have functions under this Part in relation to the application transferred.

87FTransfer to F6FCA of application for approval

(1)

F7Where the FCA agrees to the transfer to it of an application for the approval of a prospectus made to the competent authority of another EEA State—

(a)

the United Kingdom is to be treated for the purposes of this Part as the home State in relation to the issuer of the transferable securities to which the prospectus relates, and

(b)

this Part applies to the application as if it had been made to the F8FCA but with the modification in subsection (2).

(2)

Section 87C applies as if the date of the transfer were the date on which the application was received by the F9FCA.